Posted on 01/13/2010 5:37:38 AM PST by bogusname
China's most popular search engine, Baidu, has been targeted by the same hackers that took Twitter offline in December, according to reports.
A group claiming to be the Iranian Cyber Army redirected Baidu users to a site displaying a political message.
The site was down for at least four hours on Tuesday, Chinese media said.
Last year's attack on micro-blogging service Twitter had the same hallmarks, sending users to a page with an Iranian flag and message in Farsi...
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